Marlow, Louise. 1997. Hierarchy and Egalitarianism in Islamic Thought. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Marlow, Louise. 2016. Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran. Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Simpson, Marianna, and Louise Marlow. 2015. Princeton’s Great Persian Book of Kings: The Peck Shahnama. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum: Distributed by Yale Univesity Press.

Marlow, Louise, ed. 2011. The Rhetoric of Biography: Narrating Lives in Persianate Societies. Ilex Foundation Series. Vol. 4. Boston, MA; Washington, D.C.; Cambridge, MA: Ilex Foundation; Center for Hellenic Studies ; Distributed by Harvard University Press.

Gruendler, Beatrice, and Louise Marlow, eds. 2004. Writers and Rulers: Perspectives on Their Relationship from Abbasid to Safavid Times. Literaturen Im Kontext. Vol. 16. Wiesbaden: Reichert.

Marlow, Louise, ed. 2008. Dreaming Across Boundaries: The Interpretation of Dreams in Islamic Lands. Ilex Foundation Series. Vol. 1. Boston, MA; Cambridge, MA: Ilex Foundation; Distributed by Harvard University Press.